Flying about in the cottage this morning were I believe a Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) and a Bee Moth (Aphomia sociella)
I'm pretty sure this is a Large Yellow Underwing
And this is a Bee Moth.
Late morning I took a walk across the road to the Meadows and it was absolutely alive with Butterflies, Moths, Bees and other invertebrates.
So many to write up on so here are a few images and a record of what I saw at the bottom of the page.
This meadow is rich in flora and unsurprisingly very attractive to Butterflies, Moths, Bees and other invertebrates.
A Marbled White, one of over 30 here today.
Yep this is what you normally get, wings folded.
A very battered Speckled Wood
A Gatekeeper with wings closed and..........
........wings open.
A Common Blue from above and....
.........a side profile.
Just managed this shot of a Holly Blue
A Garden Grass-veneer. A lot of these in the long grasses as was this...........
............Silver Y. In fact there were 2 in the meadows.
This is a Chalk-hill Bell (Pelochrista caecimaculana) and a new moth for me on Portland
A worker Red-tailed Bumblebee and a................
.............male, told apart from the worker with that yellow band around the head.
I think these are 2 Ichneumon Wasps, Ichneumon sarcitorius and..............
..............the male Ichneumon sarcitorius
A female Roesel's Bush-cricket
Common Green Shieldbug
A Swollen-thighed Beetle and............
.............and another with that strange colouration.
A Fly which caught my eye was this Tachinid Fly, Dexisoma caninum. A new one for me on Portland.
This species of Tachinid fly is an endoparasitoid of the Common Cockchafer
Unfortunately for the Cockchafer an endoparasitoid is a parasite that lives inside another animal and ultimately kills it.
The Buddleia Bush along the track.
And looking back down the track from the gate at Wakeham Here.
Birds Recorded: Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Blackbird, Song Thrush singing, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, House Sparrow and Goldfinch.
Butterflies Recorded: Large Skipper, Large White, Small White, Speckled Wood, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, 2 Gatekeeper, Marbled White, Holly Blue and Common Blue
Moths Recorded: 12+ Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella), 2 Silver Y (Autographa gamma), 3 Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae) and a Chalk-hill Bell (Pelochrista caecimaculana)
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees, Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum), Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) and 2 Large Meadow Mining Bees (Andrena labialis)
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded: Ichneumon sarcitorius
Hoverflies Recorded: Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Flies Recorded: Tachinid Fly (Dexisoma caninum)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: Lesser Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Ischnomera cyanea), Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis), 1 Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina), Common Red Soldier Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) and a bug from the Miridae family.
Grasshoppers and Crickets Recorded: 2 Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeselii)